International Space Station (ISS) managers have been evaluating what to do after the premature shutdown of the engine of the Progress M-54 cargo vehicle now docked to the ISS, which has left the ISS in the wrong orbit. At the time of going to press ISS managers were hoping to re-fire the engine. NASA says that if the engine cannot be restarted the ISS’s Russian Zvezda module has engines that can be fired for orbital corrections.

Source: Flight International

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